Should we modify the current FIGO staging system for early-stage cervical cancer?

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1015-1017

  Petignat, Patrick ^a   Loubeyre, Pierre ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CURETTAGE; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; CLASSIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 48849102890     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737140.8.7.1015     Document Type: Editorial

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